Jeffrey Wells Talks Brando’s Bounty

Over at Hollywood Elsewhere, Mr. Wells discusses Marlon Brando’s 1962 classic ‘Mutiny on the Bounty.’ That title will be included with the larger Brando DVD Collection hitting store in November. What’s Jeff take on the movie?…

The Bounty DVD is a two-disc affair, but apparently it won’t offer a “making of” documentary. (The doc on the second disc is called “After the Cameras Stopped Rolling: The Journey of the Bounty”, which obviously isn’t about what happened before and during the rolling of the cameras.) That’s a shame because Bounty’s production history is one of the most tortured in Hollywood history, marked as it was by constant tempest (Reed was let go, Milestone quit), cost overruns and Brando’s bloated big-star behavior. It was almost as costly and disastrous as the shooting of Cleopatra, which opened seven months after Bounty.

Source: Hollywood Elsewhere

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